Meeting News - June 16, 2008 - (Page 8)

Social Scene ALL’S FAIR IN ARTS: In April, the Fairmont Dallas hosted a reception for the 5th annual Dallas CityArts event. The reception honored Jim Burke, chairman & CEO of TXU Energy, which is the major sponsor of this year’s Dallas CityArts event that takes place each June in the Dallas Arts District. Pictured: Jim Burke, chairman & CEO, TXU Energy; Philip Jones, president, Dallas CVB; Veletta Forsyth Lil, Arts District coordinator; and Bill Lively, Dallas Center for the Performing Arts. FLOWER POWER: At Loews Hotels & Resorts’ national meeting at Loews Portofino Bay Hotel at Universal Orlando, chairman and CEO Jonathan Tisch, along with (l. to r.) Rosalee Fortune, Valerie Ferguson, Renee Gosselin, Chris Crenshaw, Martha Palacios, Larry Biederman, Eileen Healy, Bill Friedrich, and Mark Ginna, made Mother’s Day corsages to raise money for the Modest Needs Foundation. Since partnering with the foundation in mid-2007, Loews Hotels has raised more than $250,000 for Modest Needs, which assists people with unexpected emergency expenses and prevents them from entering the cycle of poverty. ALOHA, AWARD WINNERS! On May 20, the Aloha Chapter of Meeting Professionals International held an inaugural Awards Gala at the Royal Hawaiian Waikiki's Monarch Ballroom to celebrate its 10th anniversary. The evening’s festivities also honored award recipents (pictured, l. to r., with Edie Hafdahl, MPI Aloha Chapter president): Donald Chock, dir. of sales & mkg., Island Partners Hawaii (Supplier of the Year); Cherryl Cunanan, MPI Aloha Chapter Board of Directors (Planner of the Year); Oahu CVB’s Lisa Mock—and current MPI Aloha Chapter director of publications (President’s Award); and Merrissa Uchimura, event coordinator (Planner of the Year). Also pictured is Randy Clark, president-elect. ISLAND HOPPERS: In May, the Sonesta Meeting Planner Advisory Board held its annual meeting at the Sonesta Maho Beach Resort & Casino and the Sonesta Great Bay Beach Resort on the island of St. Maarten. Pictured, in back row: Andrew Rippel (Sonesta St. Maarten), Norman Shostak (Harvard Medical School), Bill Boyd (Sunbelt Motivation & Travel Inc.), Stephen Clark (Stephen Clark & Assoc.), Anne Marie Laderoute-Cuthbert (Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants), Jim Trombino (Metal Powder Industries Federation), Connie Mullis (Profit Sharing/401K Council of America), Scott Corey (Sonesta), Kim Fields (Quintiles Meeting Services), Natalie Fleet (American Association of Airport Executives), Kim Adkins (Ketchum Inc.), and Juan Fernandes (Sonesta Great Bay Beach Resort GM). Front row: Bernard Hunt (Sonesta St. Maarten), Leila MacFeeley (Leila MacFeeley & Associates), Irma Mann (Irma Inc.), and Stephanie Sonnabend (president & CEO, Sonesta Collection). 8 MeetingNews June 16, 2008 www.meetingnews.com http://www.meetingnews.com

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Meeting News - June 16, 2008